In a few short years, 3D-printed medical applications progressed to the point we’re no longer surprised to read about developing 3D technologies for use outside or inside the human body. We’ve written about 3D prosthetic arms, legs, hands, eyes, and...

The latest CDC diabetes report found nearly 10% of the U.S. population — more than 30 million people — have diabetes and another 84 million have prediabetes. From 10% to 15% of the people who have diabetes will have a foot ulcer during their lives....

Statistics on the prevalence of chronic low back pain vary by age, gender, and work status, but the incidence exceeds 20% for all U.S. adults in CDC studies. According to a 2018 commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by faculty from...

A new study published in BMJ Open by medical schools and hospitals in Sweden and Boston explored the real-world value of new medical technologies. Return on healthcare spending suffers when patients do not live to benefit from the procedures. The study’s...

A few years ago, you could strap a hand-soldered circuit board onto a wrist strap and grab headlines. Fortunately, the feeding frenzy over wearable technology has subsided somewhat, but that doesn’t mean that this maturing industry has stalled. To the contrary,...

We first covered ResApp more than three years ago. The company has developed a smartphone app that can diagnose the different types of childhood coughs, simply by analyzing a sound sample recorded by a phone. It can distinguish between lower respiratory tract disease,...